After he graduated from
ENSAE ParisTech in 1968, Bravo worked for the
Minister of National Education. He began his political career in 1983 at the
Ministry of the Economy and Finance before being appointed as Financial Director at the
Ministry of Higher Education and Research along with
Laurent Fabius and
Hubert Curien. A member of the Socialist Party, he ran for the
9th arrondissement of Paris in the
1983 French municipal elections, which he lost. He was beaten again in 1989 and 1995. He was on the board of directors at
ESPCI Paris and was present when
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and
Georges Charpak won the
Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1993, he was named Inspector General of Education in
Limousin. Bravo was finally victorious in the 9th arrondissement in 2001. He secured 52% of the vote in the second round, defeating
Pierre Lellouche, and became President of the Finance Commission. In 2008, he was re-elected with 63% of the vote. In 2004, Bravo he was involved in a protest against the extradition of far-right Italian terrorist
Cesare Battisti. With the singer
Lio and the writer
Fred Vargas, he formed a committee against far-right terrorism. He reported weekly on the judicial review of Battisti's murders. In 2019, Battisti admitted to committing two murders and sponsoring two others. In 2013, Bravo was awarded in the
Legion of Honour as Commander. In the
2014 French municipal elections, Bravo would not stand for re-election. The Socialist Party candidate, Pauline Véron, lost to Delphine Bürkli. Jacques Bravo died on 18 December 2019 at the age of 75, just 11 days before his 76th birthday. ==References==